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A00402	Wonderfull newes of the death of Paule the. iii. last byshop of Rome [and] of diuerse thynges that after his death haue happened, wherein is trulye set ... the abominable actes of his most mischeuous life. Written in Latin by. P. Esquillus, and Englyshed by W. B. Londoner.; Epistola de morte	Flacius Illyricus, Matthias, 1520-1575.; Vergerio, Pietro Paolo, 1498-1565, attrib. name. aut; Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?	1552 (1552)	STC 10532; ESTC S112433	12,155	42

nowe at last yf at the least wyse he euer lyued But all his holynesse he left for Christe and his saintes thinking it ynough for hym yf but in title and name he mighte be called moste holy I come than quod I my moste trusty guyde and gladlye and willingly I do followe thee Forth we wente tyll we came vnto the Popes palace where we founde Paule breathyng a litle for he was at the poynt of death About hym were many diuelles but fewe men For they beyng sure he wold dye were othcrwise occupied some in riflyng his coffers and other some in stealyng his costly apparell with his siluer and golden vessell some aboute one thing and some about another as commonly menne are wonte to bee at so good a season Whyle these thynges were in doyng our holy father gaue vp his ghoste Then was there one whiche semed to be captaine of the fiendes and to be in authoritie aboue the reste who comming to hym sayd Sathanas saue thee thou pyller and worshippe of oure kyngdome And than takyng hym by the hand led hym downe into a certaine shadowed valleye The sydes whereof were so full of mooste hyghe Cypresse trees that the pleasaunte lyghte of the Sunne coulde no where gette in In the heade of this valleye was a verye stynkyng lake whiche I thinke eyther be Auernum or some other lyke Here Dracolicus for that was that Captayne Deuylles name because Paule wente naked commaunded a womans garmente of yron graye brodered with fiery serpentes to be broughte hym about that borders wherof wer Scorpiōs after the maner of a garde Than loe Paule semed to me to be wholy chaunged into a most foule doting old trot Contrary to Pope John who counterfayting the mā declared her selfe in bringing forth a sonne to be a very womā But I wondred muche at one thynge For in this garment I saw figured his most notable mischieues as māstaughter poysonynges treasons Incest abhominable aduoutries Than they put hi on shoes or rather bootes of swynes leather And set vpon his heade a foxe furre nyghtcap whereon they put a myter mete for thre crownes of whiche the first that wēt about his forhead temples was an * Amphisbene The secōd was of an Aspis the thirde was a Cerast with two hornes whiche did well set forth the top of the Mytre About his necke hong a chayne made of two wrethed Adders At his eare in stede of his earetyres crocked ii speckled frogges To this they gaue him loaden gloues and bracelettes of vipers that he shuld lacke nothyng of an whores attyre and garnishmēt Thē did thei set him vpō a great beast which had heare growē out of mās bloud which semed diuers with diuers coloured spottes In these spottes myght be read as they had be printed with a burnyng yron the names of al erroures and reuilinges of god and Christ that haue bene at any time sēce men were borne bothe of the Egipcians Phariseis Hessenes Hebeonites Maniches Arrians Maometans and Pelagians besides those whiche the Papistes haue inuented to the reproche of God and Christ. This beast had seuen heades and ten hye lyfted hornes and on euery horne a croune which signifieth a kynges power But Paul had caried with hym a golden cup lyke vnto these whiche the priestes lyft vp at the altare whyle they are at worke aboute his holy seruyce This Chalice caried he in his hande with suche gesture as the Germaynes be wont when they bid any man to drinke The ministers of hell led downe the hye by shoppe beyng thus decked through the lowe vallcye But Genius my ghost guyded me very pleasauntly by the righte side of the mountaine So that we lurking amōg the Cypres trees did the easilyer beholde from an higher place all thynges that were done and all the whole pompe of his Triumphe And whan we had goen a litle farther we hearde a greate noyse of horsemen that were cummyng And not long after through the monicion of Genius my ghoste I knewe Peter Aloysius the bishops sonne who hauing hearde of his fathers comminge came forth before to meete him for honoures sake And be beyng wrapped in a Goates skinne tyd vpon a Goate that was so byg that he semed to be greater then a bul At his brest in stede of a golden Bull hong a great Priapus And this Priapus whiche I greatly wondred at had a naked Pintell hanging in the middle parte of his body About Peter Aloysius were Catamites innumerable hauyng all the partes of theyr body finely clothed saue only theyr atses which beyng naked lyke Apes they shewed forthe The rest that were with hym tode vpon very great she goates And in theyr banners whether it were to fraye byrdes or no I know not they had images of Priapus There Petrus Aloysius with Constance his sister who also was his stepdame skarce knewe his father in that blacke band of horsemen For he had not that apparell that face that white horse nor that trayne after hym which he was wonte to haue in his lyfe time Neither coulde he haue knowen hym at all yf he had not marked well a certayne shape of a byshops mytre whiche they call a kyngdome his voice and speche But whan he was come nerer hym and that they had saluted one an other he sayde O father art thou also come downe hither whom I wold haue thought yf soules myght lyue longer than the bodyes whiche now alas to my payne I fele wouldest haue flyen vp into heauen For manye and that a great company of men worshipped the as a GOD. Thou promysedst heauen to them that worshipped thee Thou calledst vp soules agayne from hell Thou forgauest them muche punishment and peynes accordyng to the aunciente seueritie whiche returned to thy holy seate deuocion as of late dayes thou shewedst the prynces and people of Germanie whiche fell from the to a certayne I knowe not what doctryne of the gospel by thre by shops whiche were thy Legates a late●e Notwithstandyng those whiche were nerest about the as was I with fewe other knewe well to well that thou trustedst not thy selfe to those thynges whiche thou so muche boastedst of souldest to other but estemedst them as tales of Robin hode For I remēbre when thou affirmedst that there were no soules nor any hell at all but that thou didest defend them and saye there were suche because they were excellente and verye mete to deceyue men and not onelye to saue and defende riches and Empyres but also to get and obtayne them ¶ I thy sonne beynge instructed and seasoned with this noble doctrine thoughte nothing vnlawfull for me to do Hereof came my so many adultries both with mē and women Hereof came the slaughters and robberies frō hence came the sacrileges and blasphemous reuilinges agaynste God Christe and his mother the virgin and agaynste all the heauenly sayntes from hence came the innumerable myschiefes and all kynd of vngracious dedes which I folowyng that

¶ wonderfull newes of the death of Paule the. iii. last byshop of Rome or diuerse thynges that after his death haue happened wherein is trulye set ●●● the abhominable actes of his most mischeuous life Written in Latin by P. Esquillus and Englyshed by W. B. Londoner ¶ Apoca. viii Come awaye from her my people that ye be not partakers of her sinnes and that ye receiue not of her plagues ¶ W. B. to the louyng Reader IT is wonderfull good Reader to see the sundry diuersities of wittes what meanes they inuente to declare publishe suche thynges as they thinke necessary to be knowē some vnder the colour of fayned histories some vnder the persons of specheles beastes and some vnder the shadow of dreames and visions of which thou haste here a notable and wurthy example For some wittie man as it appeareth by his wrytyng priuie of the laste Popes secretes whiche are so abhominable as I haue hearde of fewe lyke willinge to declare to the worlde howe men were deceyued in him whiche not onely called but also beleued hym to be more than halfe a god hath vnder the name of P. Esquillus writtē an Epistle to his frēd forius Wherin after that he hath trulye declared the time of his death he fayneth a poesie in manner of a vision in which he seeth Paule Frenes the Pope receyued into hell and there meteth his sōne Petrus Aloysius who in talking to his father setteth forthe his wycked beliefe and doctrine After that he beholdeth Arches and Pinnacles wherin are graued the mischeuous dedes of the Pope as the geuyng of his sister to be abused of one that was Pope before hym the poysonyng of his mother and of his sister because she loued another better than hym the abusyng of his owne daughter and his persecuting of Christians with diuers other thinges At last folowyng on still S. Johns reuelaciō he seeth him abuse princes at last cast with them into a lake of burnyng fyre All this he fayneth properly but lyeth not I am afrayed And nowe somwhat to saye my fansy in the matter me thinketh the booke is very good and necessary I wold wishe that al christē mē especially princes for whose cause principally it semeth to be written had red it that they mighte learne here howe Popes and theyr ministers haue doen and doe abuse them For I beleue that al whiche is here written of the Popes actes and of others be true that because I knowe no man would haue bē so shamcles so to make reporte excepte he were assured of them And to th entēt that all Englishe men myghte thanke God the more for his aboundāt mercy in deliuering them through knowlege of his truth from the tiranny of so corrupt and stinking an heade and that better loue and obeye our soueraygne lord and kyng theyr head by God appoynted I haue good Reader according to my poore cunnyng Englished Esquillus Epistle that al they maye see therein the Popes moste detestable mischeuous and deuillishe doctrine lyfe and deedes that suche as yet for lacke of knowlege fauour hym maye throughe credyting this detest and abhorre hym or at leste wyse his vices whiche are vnseparably ioyned vnto the Popedome Wherfore yf thou good reader shalt for this entente reade it I shall thinke my paynes not onelye well bestowed but also as I wishe they maye be abundātlye requited Fare well ¶ Loue and lyue ¶ To his derely beloued brother Marke Forius wel learned in both lawes Publius Esquillus master of Prelates wisheth ioye and peace HOwe heuily I toke thy departure from the citie brother Marke both at thy goyng awaye and sence by letters thou knowest well ynough In somuche that yt the Pope had not feared me more absent than presente I muste nedes haue goen with thee or els dyed yf I had be mortall The Pope durste not stryue with me beyng presente because he remembred to howe greate a foyle I putte Adrian the sixte and Clement the seuenth For whan God made me Maister of Byshops and Prelates he gaue me also suche a nature and cōdiciō as could fele no death chiefely because it is ordeyned by nature that men shall dye but once whiche I haue once done already therfore I shall lyue alwaye to set a worke and correct the prelacie for euer But thou art happye O marke Forius whose chaunce it was to haue so sone witnesse of thou heauenly discipline whiche thou learnedst through out accompanying whā as Pope Paul beyng in a rage callyng that either to recāt or dye thou escapedst with a fewe For what more certayn witnesse can any mā haue of Gods fauour toward hym of hys owne allowaunce than that the byshops priestes phariseis as they dyd to Christ himself bitterly curse trouble vexe endeuour to torment kyl hym But to let passe this which thou taught from aboue knowest welynough let vs come to the pith of the matter for which I wryte nowe Thou remēbrest I suppose that whā we commoned of the cōmon weale in heauē thou madest me to promisse that if I shoulde at any tyme as I once dyd walke through the vpper coastes chaunce to passe through the neither that is to say the secretes of hel of spirites I should lykewyse certifie the therof Which thing now hath happened wonderously well For after that this dottrel I meane Paule Farnesius was buryed caryed into hel I also decēded thyther saw there many thīges which if byshops and other men would beleue they woulde neyther persecute Christe Iesus and waste his church as they do nor yet suffer thēselfes to be led away frō Christ with folish tryfles supersticions But for as much as I cannot nowe be present to talke with the shew the those thynges I will in this Epistle as briefely as I can describe the whole tragedie Wherefore as thou art wont marke thou wel consider in thy minde the thinges which thou shalt reade PAule whiche is also Saule began to dye in the fift Ide that is the. ix day of Nouember about the first watche of the nighte At what tyme I was with Titus Polibius whom thou knowest to be a man of singuler sobrietie among all the rest of the Citezins of Rome and suche a one as may worthely be called a wiseman With hym I held communicacion of the calamities of the Christen common welthe and of the remedies of the same But before our talk was ended and therfore deferred tyl an other time it pleased Polibius to make me lodge at his house that night But eare I was on slepe beholde Genius that ghost which ten yeares agone had caried me into heauen semed to be present before me and sayde Up Publius arise yf thou desire to see with what pompe and what preparacion Paule is receiucd of Dites the prince of darknes and of the other fyendes What quod I than is our most holye father dead Yea sayed he he is dead